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Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study
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by Cheryl Hayes, Christianne Lind, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Nichole Stewart, Sharon Deich, Andrew Gersick, Jennifer McMaken and Margo Campbell
September 2009, 93 pages
This report is the last in a series funded by The Wallace Foundation and developed by P/PV and The Finance Project to document the costs of out-of-school-time (OST) programs and the city-level systems that support them. The report examines the development of OST systems in six cities across the country and summarizes the strategies and activities commonly pursued, their associated investments and options for financing such system-building efforts. A synopsis of these findings can be found here. |
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Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens
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by Amy Arbreton with Molly Bradshaw, Jessica Sheldon and Sarah Pepper
May 2009, 82 pages
The third in a series of reports from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, Making Every Day Count examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and healthy development in three outcome areas: good character and citizenship, academic success and healthy lifestyles. Click here to read the executive summary. |
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Overview
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For more than a decade, P/PV has explored the potential of out-of-school-time (OST) programs to produce positive outcomes for youth. P/PV has cast a wide net in our work, examining out-of-school-time programs with purely developmental goals as well as those with a more academic focus.
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Recent Publications
Major Initiatives
AfterZones After-School Initiative
With support from The Wallace Foundation, P/PV is conducting a 40-month evaluation of the AfterZones initiative in Providence, RI—an innovative citywide approach to providing accessible, high-quality after-school programs to middle school youth.
Boys & Girls Clubs
P/PV conducted a longitudinal evaluation of teens involved in Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide, focusing on the transition from middle to high school. The study explored a variety of attitudinal, behavioral and relational outcomes.
CORAL Initiative
Funded by the James Irvine Foundation, Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) was a five-city, $58-million effort to improve educational achievement through after-school programming in California. P/PV helped participating sites integrate literacy instruction into their after-school enrichment programs and evaluated the results.
Evaluation of Financial Management in Out-of-School Time
This initiative seeks to strengthen the financial-management practices of out-of-school-time programs by evaluating two distinct capacity-building strategies.
Higher Achievement Program
In collaboration with Columbia University, P/PV is conducting a random-assignment evaluation of this intensive, academically-focused program, which provides after-school and summer academic instruction for economically disadvantaged students in 5th through 8th grades.
Out-of-School Time Cost Project
P/PV is partnering with The Finance Project to conduct a six-city cost study of high-quality OST programs and citywide systems.
Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET) Literacy
An after-school and summer literacy initiative that supports and strengthens community- and faith-based organizations' efforts to help low-achieving young people learn to read.
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